What happens seconds, minutes, hours, and days after you get into your dream university. Part 1.
(or what happened after I got into a Top-20 university in the US with a full-ride scholarship. I'll be addressing myself as "you". Intended for imagination purposes only. Have a nice read.)
You prepare yourself to receive a rejection so as not to get depressed. You open the decision. You see a big Congratulations on the screen, followed by your first name. You've just received an acceptance letter from your dream school.
1 second later: Your breathing stops, your heartbeat stops, your eyes open like they never have. You express your genuine feeling of shock, although you don't fully understand what you see on the screen.
3 seconds later: Your eyes flicker as you read the "You're in!" on the screen over and over again, making sure it isn't a dream, and that your eyes aren't deceiving you.
5 seconds later: Only now do you realize that your dream has come true. The dream you have been pursuing for over 5 years stands right in front of you, inside the 15-inch screen. At this point, even some of the strongest men will find it hard, if not impossible, to hold the tears back. You cry.
10-60 seconds later: You close your eyes with your hands. Hundreds of words you had to learn, hundreds of grammar rules you had to memorize, hundreds of articles you had to read, hundreds of test questions you had to solve, hundreds of hours spent writing, hundreds of hours spent editing, hundreds of hours spent researching universities, and all the struggle, hardship, pain, denial, stress, and failure you had to experience within 5 years flashes before your eyes in about 50 seconds. You keep crying.
... to be continued.
@Jamshidbek_Izzatulloh
(or what happened after I got into a Top-20 university in the US with a full-ride scholarship. I'll be addressing myself as "you". Intended for imagination purposes only. Have a nice read.)
You prepare yourself to receive a rejection so as not to get depressed. You open the decision. You see a big Congratulations on the screen, followed by your first name. You've just received an acceptance letter from your dream school.
1 second later: Your breathing stops, your heartbeat stops, your eyes open like they never have. You express your genuine feeling of shock, although you don't fully understand what you see on the screen.
3 seconds later: Your eyes flicker as you read the "You're in!" on the screen over and over again, making sure it isn't a dream, and that your eyes aren't deceiving you.
5 seconds later: Only now do you realize that your dream has come true. The dream you have been pursuing for over 5 years stands right in front of you, inside the 15-inch screen. At this point, even some of the strongest men will find it hard, if not impossible, to hold the tears back. You cry.
10-60 seconds later: You close your eyes with your hands. Hundreds of words you had to learn, hundreds of grammar rules you had to memorize, hundreds of articles you had to read, hundreds of test questions you had to solve, hundreds of hours spent writing, hundreds of hours spent editing, hundreds of hours spent researching universities, and all the struggle, hardship, pain, denial, stress, and failure you had to experience within 5 years flashes before your eyes in about 50 seconds. You keep crying.
... to be continued.
@Jamshidbek_Izzatulloh